
Back to the herbs! This year's herbs include mint:




And thyme:

The rosemary, chives, and thyme are new this year - we've never tried growing them before. This year we gave the mint a bigger pot because we think it didn't like the smallish pot last year - it didn't really thrive the way we expected after all the stories we've heard about how mint can grow 'like a weed' and 'take over a garden' if you aren't careful. Last year we also had pots of oregano and dill. Our dill got parched and dried out/died about 3 weeks after we got it, so we decided to not try it this year. We had success growing oregano, but we found that we didn't really use a lot of the fresh oregano, so we decided to not grow it this year. We do get bunches of it in the CSA periodically, so hopefully the CSA will satisfy our fresh oregano needs.
I can't wait to start using our herbs! Hopefully, the rain isn't drowning them in their pots on the deck. We just got the herbs and transplanted them into pots and we transplanted petunias into the planter and into some pots. I always feel like the herbs and flowers are my fragile babies for a week or so. I fret if it's too windy or too rainy or too something and peer anxiously out the window to make sure everything is OK!!! We even waited a couple extra weeks this year because the past two years we always managed to plant our herbs and flowers early enough to be worried about those last few frost advisories. Then we had to scramble to protect everything, which is a bit of a pain with pots on the deck and more pots and the planter in the front.
You're now seeing why I commented you wouldn't have harvest-able basil until July when we talked about herbs a few weeks ago and you'd mentioned you had just started it from seeds then. ;)
ReplyDeleteThyme! Let me tell you a little story. Three years ago I bought a small thyme plant (maybe 4 inches tall, 4 inches in diameter) and gave it a home in the center of my not-super-high-quality city garden in front of my apartment. That first summer I took great care of it, but stopped watering it at the end of the summer thinking it'd die with the rest of the flowers. Wrong! It has continued to flourish and is now over 2 feet in diameter! Thyme for all :) I hope yours is just as successful!
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